Trump’s War on Women: Using Trans Panic to Strip Rights
Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender women from sports, ostensibly to protect cisgender women, is a thinly veiled attack on women’s rights. This action, coupled with the halting of sexual assault prevention programs in the military due to vague definitions of “gender ideology,” reveals a broader conservative strategy to reverse decades of progress for women. The targeting of transgender individuals serves as a smokescreen for undermining Title IX protections and defunding research related to women’s health and experiences. This ultimately aims to solidify a patriarchal social order where women are subordinate to men.
John Q. Hosedrinker